Top 1200 Animal Instinct Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.

A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.

I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.

Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.

I kind of feel like... I have a slower instinct than most live-action directors, but I have more patience.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.

As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

When she offered me 'Arshinagar,' Aparna's interpretation of 'Romeo & Juliet,' my first instinct was to say no.

It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.

I make all my decisions by listening to my instinct and then keeping my fingers crossed it will lead to a good place.

I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.

The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker, the designer and manufacturer of the telescopic sight, the auto manufacturer who made the car the hunter got to the edge of the wild in, the maker of his waterproof shoes, the various manufacturers of his mittens, glasses, overcoat - and that's only the beginning of the list. The "sportsman" who shoots an animal should then make a speech, like the actor who wins an Oscar does, thanking the multitudes behind the scenes who made this "victory" possible.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

If I try to be fast then I'm no good, so it's better just to shut everything off and let instinct take over.

I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy... those things that you can't really practice.

When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

When a son tells a dad to trust him, it goes against every instinct in his body to do so.

Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning.

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

I hate that 'I got it' stuff. That drives me nuts. It's that natural instinct that everything's OK because you're winning.

I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.

It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

My music is born from instinct. I react to situations a script may provide while creating a song.

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

My instinct is to say it as I see it, being a little bit edgy and showing leadership on policy issues.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

Feminism is so pertinent - it affects all of us. As a woman you have an instinct to question sexual politics, we have a responsibility to care.

My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.